Earthquake-resistant rammed earth house designed in Morocco
Architect Aziza Chaouni has created an innovative, low-cost prototype house in Morocco’s Haouz region, which was devastated by an earthquake a year ago.
The chalet two architects designed for themselves in Canada
Comfort and sustainability in Quebec: holiday house in the woods matches living quality with minimal environmental impact.
New community architecture in China created from rammed earth ruins
In the rural village of Wanghu, UAD Design Institute has reinterpreted structures where mushrooms were traditionally grown as “natural prototypes” with which to create new shared spaces for the community.
Velarca, the BBPR houseboat opens to the public
Designed by the Milanese studio in 1959, the house on a boat, whose name and design evoke the iconic Milanese tower, can finally be visited: it is located on Lake Como.
Where are the contemporary pyramids?
Between Japan and Brazil, Brutalism in the Ivory Coast and steel in old Paris, Niemeyer and MVRDV: a journey to discover how contemporary architecture is taking an ancient archetype and making it its own.
Legendary but never built: 10 unrealized masterpieces of architecture
From Gaudí’s skyscraper for New York to Libeskind’s Potsdamer Platz, we've selected 10 projects that, even without ever seeing the light, have made history.
Living in Hamburg, inside a geometry created by nature
The two houses designed by studio NOTO are articulated around a tree, their floor is generated from the forest ground, to develop into a rigorous geometric matrix, built and clad in wood.
A new forest of books: Tadao Ando’s project in Kumamoto
The fourth Children’s Book Forest designed and built by the Japanese studio is dominated by a wooden lattice ceiling of local cypress.
A Spanish house reveals the complexity of Mediterranean architecture
To reconcile the clients' visions, studio MH.AP found in simple materials and geometries the expressiveness of space, with inspirations that portray the present like a mosaic.
A drive-thru in Buenos Aires seeks poetry in structure
An architecture with modernist echoes, an ice-cream parlour accessible by car along a road, seeks a contemporary aesthetic between essential materials and landmark shapes.
A house generated by the landscape of the Swiss hills
Mexican studio PPAA has created the forms and spaces of a house on a podium from a visual embrace with the landscape of Lake Zurich.
Aerodream, the spectacular history of inflatables
Art sets the pace and architecture follows
Frederic Migayrou, curator of the exhibition “Aerodream” at the Centre Pompidou-Metz, tells us the aesthetic and social evolution of these majestic inflatable structures, from Second World War until today.
A house in Portugal questions the architectures of tourism
In a village south of Lisbon, additions and subtractions in a rural-inspired mass seek an unconventional living, as an alternative to the language of country-seaside speculations.
What brutalism is
With the release of The Brutalist, interest is growing in one of the most acclaimed architectural movements of recent years, born as a critique of modernism and characterised by solid, tectonic volumes in which materials are exposed in their raw expressiveness.